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Photo: Daniel Ullrich (Threedots), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 Unemployment rate11.3% Median gross pay a month€3,998
Marl
A northern Ruhr city built up rapidly around a major chemical works, giving it a heavily industrial skyline unusual even for the Ruhr, alongside sprawling postwar housing estates built to house the workforce. The chemical industry remains the city's largest employer by a wide margin, and the economy's fortunes are closely tied to that one sector's health.
Housing
- Asking price, apartments
- €2,067 per m²as of September 2026 · sourced · immoportal.com
- Asking rent, apartments
- €7.57 per m² a monthimmoportal.com
- Hausgeld
- €3.30 per m² a month
- Prices, last 12 months
- -3%
- A 70 m² flat
To buy €144,690 Closing costs on top + €17,102 To rent, cold €530 a month
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Each 31 December, Bundesagentur für Arbeit, full-time employees by workplace.
Where these numbers come from
- September 2026immoportal.com
- July 2024BBSR, Laufende Raumbeobachtung (INKAR)Datenlizenz Deutschland Namensnennung 2.0
- May 2022Statistische Ämter des Bundes und der Länder, Zensus 2022Datenlizenz Deutschland Namensnennung 2.0
- January 2024Statistische Ämter des Bundes und der Länder, Regionaldatenbank DeutschlandDatenlizenz Deutschland Namensnennung 2.0
- December 2025Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Entgeltstatistik
- July 2021Oberer Gutachterausschuss NRW, Grundstücksmarktdaten NRW 2026
- December 2025Wikidata
- January 2026Wikipedia, Gesetzliche Feiertage
- September 2026Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Arbeitslosenquoten